Police were called on Saturday evening around 8:30 p.m. after the man reportedly walked toward the Witzenhausen Christmas market from a pedestrian zone with his arm raised and holding a hatchet, reported Hessische/Niedersächsische Allgemeine [HNA], a regional newspaper located in Kessel, Germany.

Police say the man was a heavily intoxicated foreign born citizen from the German town of Bornhagen. He allegedly waved the hatchet around and “addressed women inappropriately,” according to HNA. The man eventually left the Christmas market on a bicycle and was later apprehended by police.